IDEAS INTO MOTION Animation in Partnership with The Walt Disney Family Museum by Chelsea Woodard
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can vividly remember the blue and violet trees, spindly castle, and magicfuming chimney of Walt Disney’s Sleeping Beauty. While animation has come so far in the nearly sixty years since the film’s release, re-watching it, I am amazed by the detail of each branch and expression, the depth of the forms, the ability of the landscape and figures to transport the viewer into another time and place — that in-between realm that fairy tales inhabit, where a needle’s prick can kill, where an eerie green light foreshadows evil, and where true love can conquer everything, even death.
FALL 2017 • HAMPTONIA 39